Tarts on the tele!

No not an annoying programme with Billie Piper but those my favourite cupcake chaps from Outsider Tart are going to be on Rachel Allen's new Bake! series on UKTV Food at 9pm on Wednesday 15th October at 9pm.

Primrose Bakery were on episode 1 but I didn't see them - there is a cupcake recipe for some rather nice sounding lemon cupcakes on the site from them though.

Looking forward to seeing what the Davids cook for us on the 15th!

Also just HAD to mention the programme which is on after Bake!, Ace of Cakes, featuring the cakes of Charm City Cakes - on tonight's show they make a Fist of Rock cake for a wedding groom which featured the MANOWAR logo which I have tattooed on my arm!!! You can't see it in the pic but I can't find another! It also featured a HUGE cupcake tower!! Great show!

ALL HAIL MANOWAR!

Its cupcake weekend!!

And my what a choice those lovely fellas at Outsider Tart are offering!! Seriously guys, with these cupcakes you are spoiling us!

Market Menu weekend 4th and 5th October
It's Cupcake Day! We have several new flavors this weekend that we are excited to share.

UNFILLED

Red Velvet

Pumpkin with pumpkin cream cheese frosting

Apple � Cinnamon frosting

chocolate cherry cheesecake cupcake

Brownie Chunk Carrot

FILLED

Lane Cake

Espresso

Peach

Triple chocolate

Oatmeal with a butterscotch filling

Lime

Looking forward to seeing all our fellow cupcake lovers out this weekend.Have a great week,David and David

I've got a wedding party on Saturday night but I am planning a trip to Richmond in the day to pick up a few cupcakes - Manny's already made his choices! They all sound so yummy it'll be difficult to decide!!!! I think I'll definitely have to have a pumpkin one as its nearly Halloween!

UPDATE - I didn't make it on Saturday to cupcake day as there was engineering works on the train line which meant the journey was going to take about 4 hours and I had lots to do for the wedding! Pshaw!

Tarts are coming to Soho!!!!

One of my favourite cupcake bakers are coming to Soho, London this Monday, 21st July! I can't wait - although I shall have to ensure I don't visit too often or I'll explode!

Info below from their blog

Is it Monday yet?!? yes, this Monday we will be open for business. We are not letting little things like the kitchens not being completely finished and our entrance not open stop us! So try and come down to see us next week on Frith Street. 56 Frith to be exact, inside Profile, London W1D 3JGNow between now and then we have our markets so here is what's on offer this week.

I CANNOT wait :)

I wish every day was cupcake day!!

I made it over to Richmond early on Saturday - mainly cuz I left a very hungover Manny in bed feeling sorry for himself so was able to get out of the house without too much faffing, and this early start paid off as they still had a full range of cupcakes left when I arrived!! I had been drooling since reading their flavours for "cupcake day" and they were worth every second I spent drooling!

I bought 4 - strawberry vanilla and red velvet for me and brownie chunk and Boston cream pie for Manny and all 4 of them were utterly fantastic! The strawberry one was SO good I didn't want it to end - each bite of frosting was like having a zillion of the yummiest, juiciest strawberries you've ever eaten exploding in your mouth all at once! Seriously it was THAT good! My red velvet was utterly fabulous too, nice and soft with a really moreish frosting! Manny seemed to enjoy his also (I swiped a fingerful of his filing from his cream pie one and it was very good and a nibble of his chocolate frosting which was incredibly tasty!)...there were no complaints and lots of yummy noises and it seemed to help cure his hangover - see cupcakes can heal!

The guys from Outsider Tart were really friendly and gave me a gorgeous jute bag to carry my goodies home safely!! I really hope their business grows and grows, like I would if it was cupcake day every day ;)

Go buy their cupcakes ASAP - if you don't you'll only regret it! My only regret - I was so eager to get stuck into eating them my pictures suck..sorry guys!

Drooling with anticipation

Actually ignore the post below- I'm not going to Hummingbird tomorrow as I'd already planned to go to Richmond Farmers Market to pick up some Outsider Tart cupcakes as its their cupcake weekend (as is the first weekend of every month!!). I've just read their flavours for this week and I'm already hungry...yummy

Day! Market Menu 5th and 6th July
It's cupcake day at last. The flavors for the day are:

Filled Cupcakes:

Chocolate Mint

Lemon Poppy

Boston Cream Pie

Lime

Unfilled cupcakes:

Brownie Chunk

Blueberry

LavenderVanilla

StrawberryRed Velvet

The pics are from Outsider Tart's website gallery - that wedding cake is to die for!!

Outsider Tart....a journey of epic proportions

I've been meaning to check out Outsider Tart for some time now and finally got round to it this weekend. After emailing them about their cakes, they kindly let me know that the first Saturday of the month is cupcake day at their stall at Richmond Farmers Market (isn't EVERY day cupcake day??!!!) so I decided to go along this weekend to check them out.

I called National Rail earlier in the week to check that trains were running as its bank holiday weekend and that usually means hell on the rails..but the person I spoke to in a call centre in deepest India assured me that there were to be no problems with this line..I hope there is a pox on his house now as the journey was screwed up and took over an hour each way...which made Manny sulk and in the end ruined our day out...but we did manage to get cupcakes which, for me anyways, was worth it!

Outsider Tart specialise in rather unusual flavours of cupcakes - I had a banana pecan and an orange and lemon with a meringue topping...both of which were divine! I loved the meringue topping although it was definitely one to eat at home as I got covered in the topping from nose to chin! Or maybe that was just me being a messy cow! Manny had an ambrosia one and an anise one..he said that one of them was an orange spicy one, which I think was the anise one, but I can't be sure!! The ambrosia one was a filled cupcake, which means it had something inside I think - Manny didn't really go into detail, he just said that they were nice!! The guy from OT explained the flavour combinations to us about 3 times but I totally forgot them by the time I got home. I shall be heading back the first weekend of June hopefully and can get a full run-down of their flavours. Definitely worth the journey to Richmond...just not on a bank holiday!!!!

Sorry about the pics - they got a bit smooshed in my bag - I think I need to get a cupcake carrier!